Sun Netra Carrier-Grade Systems

Sun Netra Carrier-Grade Systems

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"Adax, Inc. has been fielding reliable, high performance telecom solutions on Sun hardware for over 20 years. Sun's new Netra ATCA product line raises the bar for service availability, performance and choice. It is an excellent opportunity for Adax to be successful with our current customers, and to win new opportunities. Any application developer seeking a reliable, well integrated and supported computing platform will choose Sun ATCA with Adax." Andrew Sproul, Director, Product Marketing, Adax, Inc.

"The telecom industry is undergoing significant change with consolidation and increasing consumer requirements. The strength of the Sun and AMD relationship is carrying over from enterprise computing to carrier-grade servers. The new Netra family of carrier-grade servers is yet another result of our firm commitment to providing innovative, industry standard platforms that help solve key computing issues faced by business today. The telecom industry and general enterprise alike can benefit from the high-performance, low-power consumption and reliability of the AMD and Sun blade server platform." Marty Seyer, Senior Vice President, Commercial and Performance Computing, AMD

Aricent "Mobile WiMAX deployments must be driven by a flexible approach that can start small but grow to almost infinite scale. The combined solution of Aricent WiMAX software products and the Sun Unified Network Platform offers a powerful, scalable growth path while slashing CAPEX and OPEX. In emerging economies, Aricent ASN Gateway Software and Sun Netra systems will speed WiMAX deployments, and we will jointly develop proofs of concept that demonstrate the benefits of reduced time-to-market, risk and cost." Sajal Gupta, Head of Products Business Unit, Aricent

Astute Networks "Astute Networks' ATCA-based storage solutions enable Sun's customers to achieve faster time to market which results in a greater competitive advantage. Our NEBS-certified product line is focused on the 10GB iSCSI market, and integrates seamlessly with Sun's Netra product line. Astute Networks storage solutions are the perfect complement to the ATCA family of products that Sun offers to its customers." Mike Heumann, VP Sales & Marketing, Astute Networks Inc.

"Working with Sun to provide robust storage networking connectivity for the new Sun Netra ATCA platform validates our commitment to driving innovation and collaborating as an active Sun partner." Mike Smith, Executive Vice President of Worldwide Marketing, Emulex Corporation

"Being able to extend our ServPoET BMS 1000 AdvancedTCA offerings with Sun's Netra AdvancedTCA systems, enables Service Providers to offer residential PPPoE Internet services on a fully redundant platfom with up to 72,000 subscriber capacity, and with full load balancing. We feel this will meet the most stringent requirements of any Internet Service Provider." Todd R. Ruelle, Chairman and CEO, Fine Point Technologies

"GE Fanuc Embedded Systems has been working with Sun Microsystems for more than four years, supplying product solutions that offer extra I/O functionality to PMC cards that work with Sun's SBCs. We look forward to continuing that great relationship by supplying next generation AdvancedMC communications and storage solutions for the Sun Netra ATCA product line." Jim Berlin, Vice President of Hardware Technology, GE Fanuc

"Interphase is pleased to work with the Sun Netra ATCA initiative to address customer needs for a standards-based, high performance and highly reliable platform solution. The Interphase AdvancedMC and AdvancedTCA¨ products embedded within the Netra ATCA platform enable customers to deliver leading-edge infrastructure solutions such as IP Multimedia Subsystem, Voice over IP and 3G wireless services to end consumers." Prasad Kallur, Vice President, Strategic Marketing, Interphase Corporation

"jNetX embraces the introduction of Netra ATCA blades and will continue to partner with Sun to help joint customers significantly lower their operating costs, reduce their time to market and increase customer satisfaction with breakthrough performance while enabling convergent telecom solutions in wireline, wireless, 2G, 3G, IMS and Wimax networks. jNetX will offer our market leading Convergent Service Platform on Sun Netra ATCA later this year." Gary Miles, CEO, jNetx

Logo: MontaVista Software "As the recognized leader in the carrier equipment space, MontaVista is very excited about Sun's decision to offer MontaVista Linux as an option for its upcoming ATCA blade platform. Increasingly, NEPs are choosing MontaVista Linux Carrier Grade Edition as the strategic Linux platform for their next generation infrastructure architectures. Together with Sun, we will offer customers high performance carrier grade reliability with a lower total cost of development and ownership for emerging high-bandwidth telephony networks and next generation IP-based telephony services." Mark Milazzo, Vice President, Worldwide Sales, MontaVista Software

"Sun's new Netra ATCA blades add significant momentum to the growing ATCA eco-system and complement NMS's MG 7000A high performance ATCA media processing blades to provide the foundation for highly available, carrier-grade Enhanced Services platforms such as IMS Media Gateways and Media Resource Function Processors for converged networks." Gerrold Walker, VP and GM, Platform Solutions, NMS Communications

Logo: NTT COMWARE "NTT COMWARE Corporation is interested in Sun's Netra CT900 Blade Server, because it is an integrated, open standards-based computing platform. The Netra CT900 could be used for many types of next-generation telecom applications." NTT COMWARE

"We expect Sun's new Netra ATCA product line to greatly simplify the task of building and deploying services for the the converged network. Its focus on choice, service availability and performance combined with Open Cloud's Rhino platform will enable delivery of real-time services to market faster and more reliably for today's networks as well as the next generation networks." Peter Barralet, CEO, Open Cloud

"Pigeon Point Systems is delighted to be collaborating closely with Sun to integrate the latest standards-based management subsystems technology into the exciting Netra CT900 ATCA blade server products at both the blade and shelf levels. We are excited to be part of Sun's comprehensive ATCA solution, designed to meet the high expectations of telecom equipment providers while leveraging Sun's long history of success with these demanding customers." Mark Overgaard, CEO and Founder, Pigeon Point Systems

"We were very pleased with the functionality and usability of the Sun Netra products we evaluated. What makes the Sun Netra ATCA platform such a compelling solution, is that it brings choice and flexibility and can easily be adapted to support the evolving needs of the market while supporting historical programs." Rob Harris, Director of Marketing and Business Development, Pinnacle Data Systems, Inc. (PDSi)

"SANBlaze is pleased to be a provider of storage solutions for Sun's ATCA product family. Our AMC storage modules as part of a Sun ATCA solution provide end users with optimal storage flexibility and expandability, providing a range of capacity and performance options in the removable and hot swappable AMC form factor." Steve Munroe, President, SANBlaze Technology

"As the leading software platform for high-performance packet processing for multiprocessor architectures, Teja is very excited to support Sun's ATCA launch. The rapid growth of converged packet networks requires scalability in both compute performance and services that are provisioned. Sun's Netra ATCA product line is designed for this flexibility at an architectural level. It is the ideal enabling platform for Teja to deliver highly scalable packet services." Akash Deshpande, CTO and Founder, Teja Technologies

"As the leading vendor for OEM Telecom SS7 blades and gateways, Telesoft Technologies is pleased to endorse Sun's launch of its new Netra ATCA family. Sun has combined the the openness of ATCA standards with the telco proven system management stack and high density compute blades to offer a flexible, scalable platform for communications infrastructure. The Telesoft MPAC 6400 ATCA¨ products embedded within the Netra ATCA platform will enable customers to deliver cost-effective infrastructure solutions such as SS7 and SIP gateways, with high density probing solutions to carriers." Keith Driver, Product Manager, Blades Division, Telesoft Technologies

Logo: Ulticom "Network convergence is driving the need for more flexible service platforms. Sun has combined the modular approach, manageability and openness of the ATCA standard with the proven dependability and performance of Solaris. Sun's new Netra ATCA blades provide a natural infrastructure for Network Equipment Providers using Ulticom Signalware to cost effectively build services with the expandability and extensibility needed to respond to the dynamics of network convergence." Osman Duman, Senior Vice President and CMO, Ulticom

"Veraz is very excited at the announcement of the much awaited Sun Netra ATCA blades. We expect Netra ATCA to meet the requirements of the IMS architecture of Veraz ControlSwitch. We are looking forward to working with Sun in packaging the sophisticated NGN features of Veraz ControlSwitch in the new ATCA blades." Mr. R. Paul Singh, VP Business Development, Veraz Networks

"The benefits of Sun's new Netra multi-core ATCA blades using the AMD Opteron processor are in complete alignment with Wind River's Linux- and VxWorks-based platforms. We believe networking service providers will gain tremendous value utilizing features of real-time services such as web conferencing, video email and multi-player games over an all IP-based network, demanding the scalability and reliability that continues Sun's leadership bench in the telecom industry." John Fanelli, Vice President Product Planning and Management, Wind River

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